High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Gerard Richard Shortt, also known as Jim Shortt,Jimbo,Seamus Shortt,Colonel The Chevalier James Shortt,James Shortt of Castleshort, or The Baron Castleshort, (born Croydon, 16th September 1953) is an English born Director General of the International Bodyguard Association (IBA). In 2009 Shortt was exposed by a British tabloid newspaper as passing himself off as a much-decorated SAS and Parachute Regiment veteran.